'The way we arrange the outdoor space can
have both a positive and a negative effect on children’s behaviour,
and so design ideas that will encourage positive behaviours and
safe play are vital to best practice.'

Pattie Morgan

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Ever wondered how to best set up and use outdoor spaces?

This service provides the assistance of
Pattie Morgan, a well known and accomplished outdoor play,
education and design consultant, to develop a truly unique and
functional play space that makes the most of the area
available.

What can be provided

Professional
Development:

Staff workshops either customised for individual centres or for
professional groups – teacher meetings or conference days.

Outdoor Play - Planning, Management and Reflection

Apples come from trees – planning small group gardening
activities with
children

Pattie is not a landscape architect,
but provides design ideas from the perspective of an early
childhood educator.

You will need to cover such things
as:

council permits

drainage

erosion issues

other similar broader issues

She will:

provide rough concept plans developed in consultation with
staff during a site visit

write a rationale for the arrangement of the outdoor space

if required draw a concept plan on a site plan provided by
client

provide you with contacts for landscape gardeners or drafts
people or landscape architects for working
drawings

Pattie Morgan

Consulting extensively
throughout the state with PRAV, Pattie has many years experience in
Preschool teaching and a passion for and experience in outdoor
play. She has worked in a variety of settings including
setting up and running the first mobile preschool to deliver
preschool services to people in socially remote areas of outer
Melbourne.

She presents frequently
at workshops on indoor/outdoor play and the value of outdoor
play/education and is a member of PRAV.

She uses consultative methods with early
childhhod services to develop innovative and realistic ideas
for a variety of play spaces to meet individual learning and play
styles